Satanic Temple’s state-sanctioned capitol ceremony

On Saturday, Detroit’s Satanic Temple chapter gathered on the Michigan capitol in Lansing to perform what they’re calling the “nation’s first state-sanctioned Satanic Ceremony in history.” The event came one week after Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz supporters held a “live Nativity” display on the capitol grounds. …

Blackmore reiterated that the group does not have an atheist agenda. “It is time for us to put aside our differences and realize that we have a common problem. It matters not if you are a Baptist, a Methodist, a Muslim or the faithless,” she said. “To be clear, we are not anti-Christian, and we are not anti-religion. We are anti-degradation. We are anti-oppression.”

Since there are a lot of abortion supporters, this could be one reason some are promoting The Satanic Temple.

Here is some information from the FAQ page of The Satanic Temple’s website:

To embrace the name Satan is to embrace rational inquiry removed from supernaturalism and archaic tradition-based superstitions. The Satanist should actively work to hone critical thinking and exercise reasonable agnosticism in all things. Our beliefs must be malleable to the best current scientific understandings of the material world — never the reverse.

DO YOU PROMOTE EVIL?

The Satanic Temple holds to the basic premise that undue suffering is bad, and that which reduces suffering is good. We do not believe in symbolic “evil.” We embrace blasphemy as a legitimate expression of personal independence from counter-productive traditional norms.

Of course by promoting blasphemy and abortion, The Satanic Temple is promoting evil.

The USA is becoming more accepting of many things that go directly against the Bible. Blatantly promoting satanism is just one more. Promoting satanism is wrong (cf. Isaiah 47:13-15; John 8:44; 2 Corinthians 11:12-15)

When I was last in Michigan (August 2015), I considered trying to see the Baphomet monument in Detroit for research purposes (I was considering doing a BNP video opposing it), but my schedule did not allow for it.

Anyway, the hypocrisy of this state-sanctioned ceremony is obvious. Promoting satanism is absurd, but sadly not unexpected.

The Bible warns that God will send punishment “against an hypocritical nation” (Isaiah 10:6, KJV). The promotion of satanism is only one of MANY hypocritical practices in the USA.